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Sag mahi
The theology of caviar
By Guive Mirfendereski
September 13, 2000
The Iranian
One hot summer afternoon in New Delhi, in the late 1950s, I hurried
into the pantry and opened the door to the freezer looking for ice cubes,
but found instead never-before-seen cylindrical containers, each wrapped
in white paper and secured by a piece of string bearing a small silvery
seal. "What are these," I inquired of a nearby attendant. "Caviar,
for tonight's cocktail reception," he replied. When I asked if it
was eatable, he said that it was and urged me to come around later when
he would be preparing the servings for the party and taste some >>>
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United Nations
New world order
Globalization and its narratives
By Majid Tehranian
September 13, 2000
The Iranian
We are the stories we tell. We shape our stories, and our stories shape
us. The current world trend toward "globalization" is obvious
enough, but few can agree on what it means. Globalization as a concept
has paraded in so many different narratives that it tends to be more confusing
than enlightening. The State of the World Forum, held on September 4-10
in New York concurrently with the UN Millennium Summit of world leaders,
provided a platform for the competing voices. Meeting annually since 1995
under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Forum provides an alternative
talking shop to UN. This year, government, business, and civil society
voices each told a different story about globalization >>>
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Marriage
By Mohandes
September 13, 2000
The Iranian
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Outlook
Factions Are Uniting on Détente With U.S.
By By Geneive Abdo
International Herald Tribune
September 13, 2000
TEHRAN - Contacts between high-ranking Iranian and U.S. officials in
New York last week revealed publicly for the first time that both sides
of Iran's factional divide favor an eventual end to the 21-year freeze
in relations, analysts and diplomats said Sunday.
Meetings related to the Millennium Summit of nearly 150 world leaders
at the United Nations last week signaled that Iran's conservative establishment
is willing to admit in public what until now they had acknowledged onlyin
private: relations with the so-called Great Satan could produce economic
rewards too lucrative to pass up >>>
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Reformists challenge press laws
By Guy Dinmore
Financial Times
September 13, 2000
Mojtaba Vahedi cuts an unlikely figure as editor of Iran's latest pro-reform
newspaper. But with powerful political connections, Mr Vahedi, who is also
a private businessman in the cement sector, may survive where others have
failed.
The birth last weekend of Aftab-e-Yazd (Sun of Yazd) was eagerly awaited
by Tehranis thirsty for news following the closure since April of about
25 reformist publications by the hardline judiciary and the arrest of about
a dozen writers and editors. Circulation of the daily began at 50,000 and
has already doubled >>>
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Thanks to Laleh Khalili
Students blamed for Khorramabad violence
BBC Persian Service
Conservative-dominated Inspectorate General says pro-democracy students
were to blame for a week of unrest last month in the western city of Khorramabad.
Students have condemned the report as false and politically-biased >>> LISTEN
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Must read
Some of you may have skipped yesterday's featured poem, "Foroushandeh"
by A. Anbbas. If so, here's another chance to read this powerful expression
of sorrow over a wife's death >>>
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More Letters
* Certainly not brainwashed
Cyrus Kadivar
writes: I am sorry that one of your readers felt like "throwing up"
after reading my article "Requiem
in Cairo". It surprised me to receive such a crude response from
someone who has never met me. I too can say that the events I witnessed
during the 1978-79 revolution and the tragic waste in human and economic
potential suffered by Iranians in the last 20 years also makes me physically
ill...
Freedom of expression is a luxury of Western democracies and I exercised
it. I am certainly not brainwashed nor did any member of my family persuade
me to write my feelings about an event which in my view was both personal
and necessary >>>
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* The right to throw up
Neda writes: In
"Where's your decency?", Hojabr
wrote: "Don't we have the right to express our emotions without some
pervert THROWING
UP?"
I think you have got the meaning of freedom wrong. We have the right
to express our emotions, but we don't have the right to tell other people
how their reaction to our ideas must be.
The same way that you are free to express yourself, others are free
to throw up! (It is another way of expressing emotions).
What you suggest sounds like what is going on in Iran! Many of the people
in prisons are the ones who threw up....
* Under veil of praise
Omar Iam writes: I wish to commend you for "resisting temptation"
to undergo a lengthy legal battle over googoosh.com
which you most certainly would have, at great expense, lost... To me Mr.
Golbabai's condescending message is, "Hey fool, you had the chance
to make a buck and you blew it!" >>>
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Aid: Benefit for drought victims, Seattle
The Association of Iranians in Washington State (AIWS) in coordinationwith
Artists Without Borders has organized a benefit dinner for thedrought relief
effort of the United Nations. The proceeds and othermonetary donations
to this cause will be transmitted via UN account CO-590.160.0. Benefit
Dinner: Kolbeh Restaurant, 1956 1st Ave S., Seattle, WA. FridaySept. 15,
2000 at 7:00 PM.
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
My friend, my companion, I am bound to you:
Wherever you set foot, I am the ground.
Since when do the laws of love allow
That I may see your world, but not see you?
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Journalist missing for two years
13 September 2000, Paris (Reporters sans frontières) - In
a letter to the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Shahroudi, RSF expressed
its deep concern about journalist Pirouz Davani, who disappeared at the
end of August 1998. The organisation, which asked at that time for an inquiry
into this case, "wishes to be informed today about the progress of
this inquiry". "The case of this journalist is extremely worrying
especially in a country with twelve journalists in jail", added Robert
Ménard, RSF's secretary-general >>> FULL TEXT
Theatre burns following screening of film
on tribal women
TEHRAN,
Sept 13 (AFP) - An Iranian movie theatre was damaged by fire following protests
over its screening of a film about the life of women in the Arab south of
the country, reports said Wednesday. The blaze overnight Monday in the southwestern
provincial capital of Ahwaz was probably set intentionally after the city's
Arab population protested over the film "Bride of Fire," the Entekhab
paper said >>> FULL TEXT
Iran names London ambassador
September
9, 2000, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The leader of a pro-democracy student group
jailed for his outspoken criticism of government hard-liners was released
this week but said Saturday he would keep fighting for political freedoms
>>> FULL TEXT
Iran names new ambassador to Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN,
Sept 13 (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday named Ali-Asqar Khaji, an advisor to the
country's foreign minister, as Tehran's new ambassador to Riyadh, the official
IRNA news agency reported. Khaji, who is also the head of the foreign ministry's
Persian Gulf department, replaces Mohammad Nuri-Shahroudi >>> FULL
TEXT
Iran to earn $10 billion in extra oil revenue:
Zanganeh
TEHRAN,
Sept 13 (AFP) - Surging prices should give Iran some 10 billion dollars
in extra oil revenue by early next year, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh
said on Wednesday. He said Iran had already earned some four billion dollars
in extra revenue between April and July thanks to a robust market which
has more than tripled the price since record lows late last year >>>
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Iran seizes UAE vessel, two other oil ships
TEHRAN,
Sept 13 (AFP) - The Iranian navy seized three oil-carrying ships in its
territorial waters, including one sailing under the flag of the United Arab
Emirates, state television said Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT
Brazilian author looking for Iranian filmmaker
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Brazilian author Paulo Coelho has visited
Tehran to see if Iran's world-famous directors will turn his novel, "The
Alchemist : A Fable About Following Your Dream", into a film >>>
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"Eshq-e Taher" to be screened
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Mohammad Ali Najafi's "Eshq-e Taher"
has finally gotten a screening permit -- after satisfying the censors >>>
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Shajarian's "Daad-o-bidaad"
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- Mohammad Reza Shajarian, accompanied by Hossein Alizadeh,
will perform "Daad-o-bidaad" for the first time during their European
tour >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Chess: 4th in world
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Iran took fourth place in the world student
chess championships behind Russia, Georgia and Mongolia >>> FULL
PERSIAN TEXT
Akbarpour: "Arabs are slow, lack technique"
Tehran, (Iran Varzeshi) -- Esteqlal's Alireza Akbarpour, who is
off the injured list, expects a 2-1 victory over the UAE's Al-Wahdah Thursday
night >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Pour-Heydari: "We should win"
Tehran, (Iran Varzeshi) -- Esteqlal is fit and ready to face their
UAE rival, says headcoach Mansour Pour-Heydari >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
BBC
Fuel disruption continues
The British government has held urgent talks
with senior oil executives after several days of disruption caused by protestors
blockading the country's refineries and oil depots. Protestors demand cuts
on taxes imposed on petrol. What's the prospect? Lara Petrossians Looks
at the situation >>>
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Money
It is possible that our revenues will show a surplus of
10 billion dollars before the end of the (Iranian) year (in March 2001).
-- Bijan Zangeneh, Oil Minister
AFP
September 13, 12000
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